The heart of the endurance athlete is placed under great stress during training and competition. Cardiac adaptation to exercise training encompasses morphological, functional and electrical changes ...

This year’s Olympic competitors will have to adjust. It’ll be a quick adjustment, too, for U.S. athletes who just competed in the Olympic Trials at Hayward Field, a paradise for athletes in ...

"It's the need to keep snowboarding, to keep pushing myself and seeing how much more I can do," the Roxy athlete tells PEOPLE ...

Aim To describe the demographics, frequency and anatomical location of stress injuries (ie, stress reaction and stress fractures) in athletes at the Rio de Janeiro 2016 Summer Olympic Games. Methods ...

MR imaging is useful in evaluating shin splints, early osseous stress injuries, and overt stress fracture. In the elite athlete prompt diagnosis and early rehabilitation are the goals.

The Olympic Games are a pinnacle of sports competition. For athletes, this experience can be exhilarating as well as ...

She drew backing from teammates, fellow Olympians and retired athletes, in a clear sign of how public discussion of issues such as stress and depression have become accepted on social media and more ...

Sometimes athletes fear their body's healthy stress response and think of it as "bad" for performance (e.g., performance anxiety), instead of recognizing that the nervous "butterflies" are the ...